fancied
Americanadjective
adjective
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imaginary; unreal
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thought likely to win or succeed
a fancied runner
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Etymology
Origin of fancied
Example Sentences
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“Up in one of the windows, there was a girl I fancied called Jasmine,” he explained.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
"I fancied building a UFO, but doing it from scratch would have been too expensive."
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
All that hope, so often fancied to go all of the way, only for it to end in disappointment.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
And that she had brought her servant and an orphaned baby she fancied to Baltimore to experience a more sophisticated way of living.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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